Quotes from authors passed in 1949
Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.
Jack Lovelock
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
Peter Marshall
It is in games that many men discover their paradise.
Robert Wilson Lynd
There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.
Robert Wilson Lynd
Edward Bennett Williams 
Michael Crichton 
Thomas Keller 
Billy Idol 
Hernando Cortez 
Rachel Dratch 
Robert Browning 
Ron Darling